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A spectral decomposition method is used to obtain solutions to a class of nonlinear differential equations. We extend this approach to the analysis of the fractional form of these equations and demonstrate the method by applying it to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Malgorzata Turalska , Bruce J. West

Scientific studies often require the precise calculation of derivatives. In many cases an analytical calculation is not feasible and one resorts to evaluating derivatives numerically. These are error-prone, especially for higher-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Mathias Wagner , Andrea Walther , Bernd-Jochen Schaefer

A fractional Adomian decomposition method for fractional nonlinear differential equations is proposed. The iteration procedure is based on Jumarie's fractional derivative. An example is given to elucidate the solution procedure, and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Guo-cheng Wu , Ji-Huan He

We introduce a new numerical method, based on Bernoulli polynomials, for solving multiterm variable-order fractional differential equations. The variable-order fractional derivative was considered in the Caputo sense, while the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Somayeh Nemati , Pedro M. Lima , Delfim F. M. Torres

We study operators that are generalizations of the classical Riemann-Liouville fractional integral, and of the Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional derivatives. A useful formula relating the generalized fractional derivatives is proved,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-10-29 Tatiana Odzijewicz , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

Fractional derivatives can be used to model time delays in a diffusion process. When the order of the fractional derivative is distributed over the unit interval, it is useful for modeling a mixture of delay sources. In some special cases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jebessa B. Mijena , Erkan Nane

This article presents a novel solution method for nonautonomous linear ordinary fractional differential equations. The approach is based on reformulating the analytical solution using the $\star$-product, a generalization of the Volterra…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Fabio Durastante , Pierre-Louis Giscard , Stefano Pozza

In this study the general formula for differential and integral operations of fractional calculus via fractal operators by the method of cumulative diminution and cumulative growth is obtained. The under lying mechanism in the success of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Fevzi Buyukkilic , Zahide Ok Bayrakdar , Dogan Demirhan

Fractional generalization of an exterior derivative for calculus of variations is defined. The Hamilton and Lagrange approaches are considered. Fractional Hamilton and Euler-Lagrange equations are derived. Fractional equations of motion are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vasily E. Tarasov

In this paper, we propose a numerical method for computing Hadamard finite-part integrals with an integral-power singularity at an endpoint, the part of the divergent integral which is finite as a limiting procedure. In the proposed method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Hidenori Ogata

We introduce new fractional operators of variable order on isolated time scales with Mittag-Leffler kernels. This allows a general formulation of a class of fractional variational problems involving variable-order difference operators. Main…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Thabet Abdeljawad , Raziye Mert , Delfim F. M. Torres

We present an extension of a previously developed method employing the formalism of the fractional derivatives to solve new classes of integral equations. This method uses different forms of integral operators that generalizes the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 D. Babusci , G. Dattoli , D. Sacchetti

In this work we study arbitrary-order hybrid discretizations of Friedrichs systems. Friedrichs systems provide a framework that goes beyond the standard classification of partial differential equations into hyperbolic or elliptic, and are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Daniele Di Pietro , Aurelio Spadotto

In this paper we consider a modified fractional Maxwell model based on the application of Hadamard-type fractional derivatives. The model is physically motivated by the fact that we can take into account at the same time memory effects and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Roberto Garra , Armando Consiglio , Francesco Mainardi

A simple yet effective numerical method using orthogonal hybrid functions consisting of piecewise constant orthogonal sample-and-hold functions and piecewise linear orthogonal triangular functions is proposed to solve numerically fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Seshu Kumar Damarla , Madhusree Kundu

In the present paper, we address a class of the fractional derivatives of constant and variable orders for the first time. Fractional-order relaxation equations of constants and variable orders in the sense of Caputo type are modeled from…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Xiao-Jun Yang

We present a hierarchical computation approach for solving finite-time optimal control problems using operator splitting methods. The first split is performed over the time index and leads to as many subproblems as the length of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Georgios Stathopoulos , Tamás Keviczky , Yang Wang

The aim of this work is to show, based on concrete data observation, that the choice of the fractional derivative when modelling a problem is relevant for the accuracy of a method. Using the least squares fitting technique, we determine the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2017-04-04 Ricardo Almeida

Recently, we have proposed a new diffusive representation for fractional derivatives and, based on this representation, suggested an algorithm for their numerical computation. From the construction of the algorithm, it is immediately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kai Diethelm

We give a proper fractional extension of the classical calculus of variations by considering variational functionals with a Lagrangian depending on a combined Caputo fractional derivative and the classical derivative. Euler-Lagrange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Tatiana Odzijewicz , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres